Re: Vista - .avi file plays back squished
- From: TallTVTraveller <TallTVTraveller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 19:50:00 -0800
Neil.
Thanks for the thought but I checked and it's been at 1.0000 as it should
be. Very perplexing because video that played back fine a year ago now does
not. The only difference really is a higher level of WMP and the platform
change from XP to Vista.
TTT
"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:55:00 -0800, TallTVTraveller.
<TallTVTraveller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've been trying to figure this out for months. Not sure its the same
problem I'm reading about here. I have Vista, WMP 11 that came with it,
Toshiba laptop with wide screen display. I play back .avi videos - both
recent and old - and the picture is squished from 4:3 to a square. Remains
as a square when expanded to full screen in WMP 11.
Right, that would likely be pixel aspect ratio. DVDs and other video
formats for use on TV displays may have non-square pixels - you might
see this listed on DVD cases for example as Anamorphic 16:10
If the 4:3 is changed to some other value by mucking about with the
pixel shape, that could reproduce it going to 4:4 instead of 4:3
In WMP, if you go to the small dropdown menu below Now Playing, choose
More Options -> Devices and click Display then Properties. Make sure
the slider there is set to exactly 1.000 horizontal pixels per
vertival pixel. Re-try the video and see if that has a useful effect.
HTH
Cheers - Neil
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